Lyn Storey Research Paper

I couldn 't imagine being a teacher. What teacher 's do is so incredible that I couldn 't even comprehend what it 's like to get up and teach in front of a class for an hour and a half. It sounds so strenous to me, yet teachers do it! Teachers change people for the better, and for that we all should be genuinely grateful. My favorite teacher of all time was forced into retirement a couple years ago, Lyn Storey at Sandia High School. Many students complained about Storey because of her tough and somewhat unorthodox ways of teaching. I was lucky enough to learn two years of English, as well as literary and life skills from her. When I first had Storey my sophomore year of high school I hated her. I was even one of those kids who got a red F on a paper and ran to my parents with complaints. Both of my parents even had a parent teacher conference with her afterwards which I didn 't realize at the time that I had to change and not expect her to go "easy" on me. After my second, six weeks of my first semester as a sophomore I had an F in the class, I remember asking if there was anything I could do to get my grades up right now, in which she replied, "You could get a time machine." I didn 't realize how much I should 've appreciated this attitude at the time. It just pushed me to try harder. Storey 's class rules were simple: once class began no one could leave, I couldn 't go to my locker to get an assignment that she had given us months ago and hadn 't collected yet, I couldn 't turn in anything late, and if the assignment weren 't done in pen then it wasn 't acceptable. Every class after her English class seemed so easy. And because of Lyn Storey I got straight A 's in college and learned so many life lessons about organization that have made me a more level headed and well structured woman. My note taking abilities are impressive and I can write well structured essays. I also learned more in the two years she taught me English, than any other teacher had taught me in four years at Sandia. Now I 'm …show more content…
This is demonizing towards faculty and stuff of the education system and will inevitably "force into retirement" many great teachers. The inacuracy of the evaluations itself will affect the outcome of the teacher 's lesson. If I were a teacher, I would be terrified of losing my job with this new evalutaion system and because of that my performance would suffer. I would probably worry about my job so much that I would just want my students to pass so I would still have job security. This thought process is so unfair because teachers mold students so they become great people. Teachers change lives. PED, APS, citizens, students and every human being should be grateful for those teachers out there who love their careers and love changing the lives of their students. This evaluation is harmful to the emotional well-being of teachers and therefore harmful to the student 's education. On behalf of 20-year-old students everywhere, I 'm thankful for everything my teacher 's have done for me and everything they taught me, and I hope they can continue to teach in a professional, stress-free environment that they ALL